hello and welcome to 100 days. russian links, wireta ps. now leaks from the cia. us intelligence is firmly under the spotlight. today wikileaks publishes thousands of unverified documents that apparently expose how the cia hacks smart phones and televisions. on this data breach and the president's claim that his phones were tapped, we'll speak to the former head of the cia, michael hayden. republicans reveal their plan for american health care, but conservative critics just say it's "obamacare—lite. " the accidental face of protest against president trump. we speak to the woman behind the icon. the expression itself of the photo you can see it right there. you're not going to move me from here. i'm not going to move me from here. i'm not going to be moved. in the uk, the government suffers another defeat on the brexit legislation. the lords want parliament to be

given a bigger say on any final deal with europe. in france, while fillon flounders, marine is on the march. can the front national achieve the unthinkable and take the elysee palace? i am katty kay in washington. christian fraser is in london. the us intelligence agencies are facing fresh embarrassment after wikileaks published what it claims is its biggest—ever file of confidential documents from the cia. it apparently reveals some of the tools the agency uses to break into smart phones, communication apps and electronic devices. the documents, which have not yet been independently verified, would seem to focus on the techniques for hacking, including information on how the cia collaborated with british intelligence in finding ways to compromise smart televisions. bbc newsnight‘s diplomatic editor is mark urban. this leak is dubbed the old severn

bridge is a mysterious name but raises questions about the inability of the spy agencies to protect documents in the digital age. yes, it's a term wikileaks is used. not a cia term. they claim to have a trove of hacking tools which are being used by the cia, extraordinary. two warnings, the documents appear to be in an html format, easily to edit, they could put things in and distort they could put things in and distort the meaning of some of those documents. the other, of course, is the timing is rather strange because resident trumpets under such pressure on the russian problem at the moment for people are asking about the question of the timing but let's assume it's genuine. a big community of the usa have top secret clearance, more than 800,000, a consequence of 911, the need to

share intelligence consequence of 911, the need to sha re intelligence after that consequence of 911, the need to share intelligence after that but the more you share it, the more you open yourself up to the possibility that someone can do something catastrophic by way of a leak. from some of the report about these lea ks, some of the report about these leaks, it some of the report about these lea ks, it reads some of the report about these leaks, it reads like a rather bad spy leaks, it reads like a rather bad spy novel. let's dig a little bit into what is in them, what it tells us about what the cia is capable of doing. katty, if you are a novelist and you like the wilderness of mirrors concept of espionage, not knowing anything any more, this leak is bad news. definitely confirming that paragon. we learn from it that the cia has bridge group, which takes malware and hacking techniques from other people, known groups of hackers, and uses it to make cia hacks deniable. apply that technique toa hacks deniable. apply that technique to a much larger base, on the assumption that a lot of the cia's owner hacking techniques have been compromised as a result of this leakage, and you have a world in

which the attribution of who did something, how important is that in the context of those democratic national committee hacks we saw in the election in the usa, the attribution becomes less and less certain since everyone could be trading or using different hacking tools and there would be less of a signature to anyone country's cyber attacks. 0k, mark, thanks very much, lot to talk about. so lots to speak about with the former cia director and former nsa director general michael hayden. thanks forjoining us. listening to what mark was saying about these latest releases from wikileaks, how damaging is this to the cia? first of all, katty, i have got to say i only know what i'd just heard and quickly read in a few news reports, the agency has not yet confirmed or denied the authenticity so i've got to put that out there full stop now, if what i have read is true, then

this seems to be an incredibly damaging leak in terms of the tactics, techniques, procedures and tools that were used by the central intelligence agency to conduct legitimate foreign intelligence, in other words, it's making my country and my country's friends laissez. what you do about people inside the intelligence community, 800,000 with top security clearance, 21,000 in the cia alone, someone somewhere got hold of these documents and decided to pass on. how do you stop that happening? that appears to be the story, katty. idon't happening? that appears to be the story, katty. i don't want tojump to conclusions. let's see how this plays out. there are other possibilities but let's take that as a working hypothesis and you've raised an incredibly difficult question. just the sheer number, how do you make sure everyone of them

remainsa do you make sure everyone of them remains a loyal american citizen, the british security services and so on. beyond that, katty, there is another dynamic at work here. in order to do this kind of stuff we have to recruit from a certain demographic and i don't mean to judge them at all. a group of millennials, and related groups, who simply have different understandings of the words loyalty, secrecy and transparency than certainly my generation did and so we bring these folks into the agency, good americans, i can assume, but again, culturally, they have different instincts than the people who made the decision to hire them and we may be running into this different cultural approach that we saw with jason manning, edward snowden and now with a third actor. 0k, pesky

millennials for sublets talk about someone older than that, president tom. and his accusation that president 0bama tapped as phone —— president 0bama tapped as phone —— president trump. you have suggested this as a presidency manufacturing crises. when there is a real crisis, and you know from being in the cia, crisis will hit from north korea or somewhere else, is this administration in a position to deal the crisis right now? you've asked my opinion and, from the outside looking in, and i stand to be corrected by my very good friends who have senior positions inside the trump administration but, right now, no, we don't. the metaphor i use is we are out there for the pre—game warm up before a football game and we are chaoticjust trying to loosen up we are chaoticjust trying to loosen up our muscles. the other team hasn't even gotten onto the field yet and no one is kicked a football. this is self—imposed. unforced

errors. and contention before any foreign actor has seriously tried to threaten us with provocation. sol am somewhat concerned. it may turn out that, once you have got an external enemy on which to face, some of this internal self—imposed chaos will die down but, so far, not looking good. general hayden comet christian fraser in london. i'm interested in what you are saying there. are you suggesting this president doesn't have the temperament you would want in a commander—in—chief?” temperament you would want in a commander-in-chief? i commented on that in the campaign, christian. you can see what happens if a man becomes president, how then does he adapt to the demands of the office and, so far, i don't think it's an fairto and, so far, i don't think it's an fair to say he seems to be trying to reshape the mores of the office rather than reshaping himself to the traditional mores we have seen from

other presidents. let me just add, he is selected incredibly powerfully, strong team of individuals. the national security adviser, it's hard to picture about adviser, it's hard to picture about a group of americans on which the president could rely. and now the question simply becomes, will the president rely on this group of americans? 0ne president rely on this group of americans? one other thing, christian. we've got a whole bunch of folks not present for duty. about 500-600 of folks not present for duty. about 500—600 political appointees, who need confirmation from congress and the federal bureaucracy. congressmen are slow in confirming that the administration has been incredibly slow in nominating. they've only nominated 40 or 50 so here we have the president complaining that the bureaucracy is not responding but he doesn't have his political appointees in place to guide the bureaucracy according to his wishes. 0ne

bureaucracy according to his wishes. one other thing i want to talk to about, christopher steele, the former mi6 operative who put together the so—called dodgy dossier, he has reappeared today. we thought he was in hiding. he appeared in belg ravia thought he was in hiding. he appeared in belgravia in london and was doorstep by a journalist and said he was back at work. as the former director of the cia, is he someone you would want to speak to face—to—face? do you think that might have already happened? maybe you could comment on what you think about this dossier and what we found out about it. sure, i suspect it's already happened because the offer the dossier to the usa and frankly out of a sense of concern, not out of any business model he was pursuing. he'd already been paid for his work by other folks. i've been told by my british friends that he was a solid m16 officer, so told by my british friends that he was a solid mi6 officer, so he's put together this report. what it is we now need to do, christian, if this

was an american intelligence product, we would have its stamp on the top of the page, this is raw information, not finished intelligence. the way you get it to finish intelligence is you look at each data point and each source and you look at them and say, would be a source logically be expected to know this? has this source reported reliably to us in the past? do we have other bits of information that confirm or deny this particular piece? and you work your way slowly through the entire document. now you're moving in the direction of something you would call intelligence rather than raw information. i think his participation in that would help make the process faster and more accurate. it's really fascinating talking to you. thank you very much for talking to us. come and talk to us again in the future. director—general michael hayden. the author of playing to the edge —

american intelligence in the age of terror. worth a read. he said the rub people working in the intelligence agencies at the moment with different interpretations of loyalty, secrecy, transparency. i was really struck by that because, really, that has been the theme of the first 50 days of this presidency? yes, you mentioned chelsea manning and edward snowden and the cia is going to look into and the cia is going to look into and try to find out who is behind this latest dump to wikileaks of cia documents. but the problem here is broader and the general was hinting at it, the breakdown, frankly, in relationships between this white house and the intelligence community and, at some point, the white house will need the intelligence community and will need them to give them an analysis and information and if the white house carries on its war with us intelligence is not going to get the level of cooperation it might need at some future date. yes, and

the outside world looking in has concerns as we expressed. republicans have been itching to get rid of barack 0bama's health care reforms ever since they became law in 2010. now they have their man in the white house and a golden chance to replace what became known as 0bamaca re. but their own proposals haven't exactly received a rapturous reception. some republicans fear people on low incomes could lose their insurance. others, who were hoping for something more radical, have dismissed the plans as 0bamacare—lite. rajini vaidyanathan‘s been looking at the new health care bill. iam also i am also calling on this congress to repeal and replace 0bamacare. applause what does a replacement for 0bamacare look like? some things have stayed the same. you're still entitled to coverage if you have a free existing medical condition and you can stay on your pa rents condition and you can stay on your parents insurance up until the age of 26. there's also no limit on how

much insurers will pay out for medical bills over a person's lifetime. but here are some of the key changes. is no lorry compulsory to sign up for health insurance so individuals and businesses won't get find any more if they don't take out health insurance policies. instead, if they let their plan laps, they could face surcharges and up to 30% from their insurers. government subsidies for health care are out and tax credits are in. this time they are based on your age rather than your income. but the expansion of medicaid, the government funded programme which rubs people on low incomes or disabilities, will be stopped. and women's health clinics like planned parenthood will no longer receive government funding u nless longer receive government funding unless they agree to stop performing abortions. likewise, if you could health policy which covers abortions, you won't get a tax credit. so some of the core components of 0bamacare will remain in this replacement, but the

government's role in subsidising health care has been stripped down. we still don't know how this new plan will affect access to health care, or its cost. well among the congressman on the committee which will first consider this bill is republican buddy carterfrom georgia. a short time ago i spoke to him on capitol hill. congratulations, you've now released the republicans health care plan but there seems to be a hitch which is a lot of republicans don't like it, you have a string of conservative think tanks and saves no good, members of your own caucus, your own republican study committee, and senator mike leigh, a republican, who says this is exactly the kind of backroom dealing week criticised democrats for. how are you ever going to get this past? keep in mind our whole goal was to produce something more accessible, more affordable and is patient centred. i'm really happy with the plan we have, are there parts of it i would like to see go further? sure, that's

a lwa ys like to see go further? sure, that's always going to be the place but overall, it offers the opportunity to have affordable and accessible patient centred health care. you can't be thrilled with the opposition to it from within your own party. we haven't even got to democrats yet. we never expected to have cooperation from the democrat a nyway have cooperation from the democrat anyway so that's beside the point but, yeah, there are those in our party who are concerned and we are going to mark this bill up to committee and see if there are things we can improve upon and, if not, we will put forward the best bill we can for the american people. we've got to do something. 0bamacare is collapsing, failing, and this is something we couldn't have sit around and let it lapse on its own but we decided to do the responsible thing and decided to be proactive and to go in and help and fix the health care system that's what we're trying to do here, bring the free market back into the health care

system. 0bamacare now becomes trump care, and that means the republican party is america's health—care system politically, not without hurdles for you, not without potential dangers? and that's ok. look, the most important thing here is to make sure that we repair the health care system which has been destroyed by 0bamaca re. health care system which has been destroyed by 0bamacare. that's the most important thing. yeah, we are taking a risk, we understand that, and that's part of our responsibility. 22 million people now have insurance who didn't and 0bamacare is polling more popular thanit 0bamacare is polling more popular than it ever has done. look what is happening. i can't understand how you can look at what happened just this weekend in tennessee where you had 16 counties which don't have a carrier whatsoever. you have five states in our country which have one insurance security there and that's not competition. that's not what is going to bring down health care costs a nd going to bring down health care costs and give people choice is.

congressmen, let me go global on this because there seems to be the quandary repeated american administration tried to fix and just don't manage to. other western countries have health care systems that cost a lot less and proved to bea that cost a lot less and proved to be a lot more popular than the american one. why is this so difficult for the united states to get right? well, it's not difficult. i would sue the two that we have the greatest health ca re i would sue the two that we have the greatest health care system in the world, there's nowhere else you'd wa nt to world, there's nowhere else you'd want to be if you're thick of an american. if you have insurance. it needs to be patient centred and affordable but 0bamaca re needs to be patient centred and affordable but 0bamacare put barriers between patients and the medical profession and that's what we've got to make sure we do, make it more patient centred, and if you look at you'll see we are increasing health savings, giving tax credits to people in order to buy insurance. we wa nt to people in order to buy insurance. we want to make sure people have control over the health care, not

this cookie cutter approach from washington which says we know best. we are going to tell you what you need to do with your health care. health care is very personal and people want to have control over their health care. 0k, buddy carter, thank you very much forjoining me. plenty of contentious debate in the uk parliament and congress. i keep telling you, katty, the uk is on the verge of beginning the brexit process. but parliament is still voting on the legislation that would sanction the formal withdrawal. there was another vote in the upper chamber tonight the lords on the brexit bill which could upset the timetable a little. let's discuss it with our chief political correspondent vicki young. so they have voted, overwhelmingly, to give parliament more say on a deal but this is an amendment which now has to go back to the congress, so at this ping—pong goes on but in the commons in the lords. who winds? that's a very good question but the prime minister has said she wants to

trigger those brexit negotiations by the end of march. downing street had insisted all along she will be able to do that but the problem is there are some mps in the anderlecht house of lords who want to attach conditions on her before she goes into those negotiations. 0ne conditions on her before she goes into those negotiations. one of those, defeat the house of lords inflicted on the government last week, was about giving eu citizens who live in britain, 3 million of them, the right to stay here. to do that unilaterally. tonight theyjust inflicted a second defeat because they say parliament must have what they say parliament must have what they call a meaningful vote at the end of the process so theresa may will go off and have these negotiations may be for two years with other eu leaders and come at the end of it, what parliament is saying is that they must have a meaningful vote, and to be allowed to accept or rejected the deal she comes back with. the government is having none of it and say they don't wa nt having none of it and say they don't want this to happen, it's a single bill which should not be changed, and they have promised a vote that they don't want it put into law

force of what happens next week is a ping—pong at a goes on house of lordsjust over there ping—pong at a goes on house of lords just over there down there to the house of commons and we'll have to see if mps agreed with the house of lords or whether they decide to go along with a government. without the sea in the next few days if there's any sign of a rebellion amongst the mp5 there's any sign of a rebellion amongst the mps in theresa may's party. well summed up, thank you for the moment. we will get there, katty. | the moment. we will get there, katty. i believe you, christian. it's not been the best day for president trump's new secretary of housing and urban development. yes, ben carson has been heavily criticised for referring to slaves brought from africa to the us as immigrants. take a listen. it's what america is about. a land of dreams and opportunity, there we re of dreams and opportunity, there were other immigrants who came here at the bottom of slave ships who worked even harder and longer for less. but they too had a dream. that one day their sons, daughters,

grandsons, great grandsons, great granddaughters, might pursue prosperity. it's just granddaughters, might pursue prosperity. it'sjust painful. the civil rights organisation, the naacp, tweeted simply — let me also show you this from the anne frank center for mutual respect. "#bencarson you really think slaves were immigrants? maybe hud needs another doctor in the house. @potus @realdonaldtrump @whitehouse" and then this from samuel ljackson who was more to the point. "0k!! ben carson. . . .i can't! immigrants? in the bottom of slave ships??!!..." — there were some rather more choice words in there as well, which i have spared you. this is family viewing so we have taken those out. samuel ljackson, you will remember him from pulp fiction and he's in a movie coming up fiction and he's in a movie coming up on king kong, but he also was not a very happy with the way this is going. it's a question of competency full

study should never have said that. no, i noticed that last tweet was more polite than the one eyesore. —— i saw. now the tours of the white house restarted today. they are normally postponed either side of the inauguration, and look who the first guests came across. what a surprise for the group of tourists. he even singled out one boy for a hug and a photograph. that was 10—year—old jack cornish who's from birmingham in alabama. he urged the group to work hard. it is of course the message for the rest of the country but i'd just wa nt to rest of the country but i'd just want to show you something else, katty. how eagle eyed are our viewers? as he came round that screen, who do you think were sitting there on his right shoulder? have a look at that portrait. i

know, you have to wonder whether somebody in his advance team didn't tell him that when he got there he would be right in front of a picture of none other than hillary clinton on the wall. he can't lose her. shoes on his shoulder all the time. hillary clinton in the portrait. at least she's still there. maybe she's just part of the furniture, i don't know. she still up there on the wall and was of course an important part of the white house history so she remains there. you have to wonder, we've not heard much from hillary clinton recently or barack 0bama, but you must wonder what she makes of this. we talk a lot about how the press might be blowing this out of proportion and we're talking about chaos but we just have the former director of the cia on the programme saying that the united states, under this administration, is not prepared and ready to face an international threat to this country. that's not us, that somebody who knows

intelligence and what it means to deal with national security. you have to wonder what hillary clinton might be thinking. yes, a penny for those thoughts. you're watching 100 days from bbc news. still to come for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news, as the french presidential campaign of one contender collapses around him, how much of a boost is that for the far—right hopeful marine le pen? we hearfrom one of her closest political allies. and the poster girl of protest. why this image continues to inspire people all around the world more than a decade after the photo was taken. that's still to come on 100 days from bbc news. after a fine day across many parts

of the uk, a spell of rain to come overnight and some of it will be on the heavy side. after its gone through we begin a push of mild air in across the uk said temperatures widely into double figures, some into the mid teens but, yes, that comes into the mid teens but, yes, that co m es after into the mid teens but, yes, that comes after a spell of rain. here is sunshine, partly cloudy skies and west yorkshire police cloud around in cornwall, closer to the atlantic frontal system which is coming in. son in cornwall, western scotland, saw rain this afternoon. as it pushes east across the uk, and the night goes on, freshening wind. the higher you are in northern england, especially into scotland, some snow for a time. for many of us, it will dry up later in the night but rain and showers into northern scotland and showers into northern scotland and temperatures are bit up—and—down overnight. it is going to be milder thanit overnight. it is going to be milder than it was last night so why will ta ke than it was last night so why will take you to 8am, strong to gale

force winds in northern scotland. 50-60 force winds in northern scotland. 50—60 mph gusts and plenty of showers moving through some of those heavy. not many reaching the southern belt. northern ireland, england, dry with sunny spells throughout the day. north wales and the midlands should brighten up through the day but to the south of that, south wales, the midlands, east anglia and southern england it will be mainly cloudy and there will be outbreaks of rain during the day. pulses of energy working along so although it's not going to be raining all the time, there will be spells of rain moving through with dry interludes. you can see where the best of the sunshine will be across northern england, north wales and northern ireland. good sunny spells and northern ireland. showers moving across scotland. temperatures in double figures, particularly with sunshine, and that will make for a present—day. wednesday evening, still outbreaks of rain affecting southern england and still showers in northern scotland and it could well be first thing on thursday

before they ease. not so wet in southern england but mainly cloudy for southern counties. rain in the far south—west of many places dry, bright and sunny on thursday. looking ahead to friday, it is still mild but, by friday, plenty of cloud around for the weekend and it's looking unsettled. welcome back to one hundred days with katty kay in washington — christian fraser's in london. our top story — wikileaks publishes thousands of unverified documents that apparently expose how the cia hacks smart phones and televisions. the former head of the intel agency, general michael hayden, gave us this reaction. if what i have read is true, then this seems to be an incredibly damaging leak in terms of the tactics, techniques and procedures and tools that were used by the central intelligence agency to conduct legitimate foreign

intelligence. in other words, conduct legitimate foreign intelligence. in otherwords, it conduct legitimate foreign intelligence. in other words, it has made my country and the friends of my country, less safe. and coming up — the poster girl of protest — why this image continues to inspire people all around the world. latest polls from france suggest that the independent politician the far right candidate marine le pen is stilljust ahead of the centrist candidate emmanuel macron in the run up to the first round of next month's french election. victory for le pen would be a historic moment — not since 2002 has the far right got through to the second and final round of the voting. bruno gollnisch, who lost out to marine le pen for the leadership of the party, now represents them in the european parliament. and i've been speaking to mr gollnisch from our studio in paris. thank you for being with us. the

front nationale is riding high in the polls but when we look at the polls it suggest that you will be defeated in the next round by either emmanuel macron or francois fillon. yes, but one can say that the campaign did not really begin yet. there were all these problems involving scandals or so—called scandals and so on. i think when it will come to the comparison of the programmes of each candidate, it will change and if everybody thinks and the polls that you mention, say that marine le pen will stand for the final round, for example, if she is opposed to emmanuel macron, emmanuel macron will have to defend his proposals and i think it will

appeared very clearly that it is the really interesting debate between, i would say, globalism on one side, emmanuel macron, and defending independence, freedom and national identity on the other side. how do you think the election of donald trump, particularly the policies he is pushing, how do you think that is changing the political debate in france? we are not vessels of mr trump. but we are happy with his election. first of all, because he won the election against the

political establishment. there is a difference of course, because for many people however much marine le pen has tried to rebrand your party, for many people, the party as nationalists, far right, it is racist and it has some pretty unsavoury people amongst its supporters. well, i cannot understand that. people believe, if they follow, if they read the guardian or the independent, and newspapers like that, but it is not true, we are not racist, there are people from various origins and from french areas, even people who have been elected, people from different religions, there arejewish people, muslims in our ranks. you want a

muslims in our ranks. you want a muslim band? no, we do not want to ban the muslim religion, but we want to ban radical islamists, that is for sure. over the future be for france if the national front won? marine le pen stated very clearly, we wa nt marine le pen stated very clearly, we want to reverse the actual trend of the european union, that is absolutely crazy, tried to build the kind of a euro aquatic superstate, which the people do not want. thank you very much for your time. you are welcome. that was fascinating. i wa nt to welcome. that was fascinating. i want to ask you a question that relates both to emmanuel macron and marine le pen. it seems to be emerging that one of the biggest issues in this campaign, as it was in the united states and the brexit

vote is the issue of immigration. at one point does emmanuel macron have to ta ke one point does emmanuel macron have to take a clear stand on the immigration issue if he is going to carry supporters with them? at the moment it seems like he is trying to please everyone on an issue where it is impossible to do that.|j please everyone on an issue where it is impossible to do that. i think their national front will try and focus minds if they get through to the second round. they are seen success in some of their oral heartlands, informing territories, in places that you and i both go to on our summer holidays, these places where we have seen people disappear from villages. it is those kinds of villages, they might be busy in the summer but in the winter they are empty, where business disappears where they are doing well. yes, i think emmanuel macron is going to have to put on record, more than he has put out so far in this ma nifesto. has put out so far in this manifesto. he is an untested element

in this election. these are two outsiders, we got rid of the president and former prime minister she have the experience and the question is although the polls say it is 60-42 question is although the polls say it is 60—42 emmanuel macron if he gets through, but can she highlight some of the things were potentially he isa some of the things were potentially he is a lot weaker and potentially immigration is one of those issues. i think you have just given away our holiday sick is there. they all know that we go to the south of france now. sorry about that. not together, by the way! in iraqi, elite forces fighting the so—called islamic state say they've captured key buildings in the city of mosul. these pictures come from the city centre and show iraqi forces in a battle with the militants. the army says it's recaptured the main government complex, the central bank and the museum, where three years ago the militants had smashed statues and artefacts. the iraqi prime minister said he

planned to visit washington later this month. the us has begun deploying missile system in korea. it is designed to shoot down incoming missiles. china warned it would take unspecified action against it over fears that the system ‘s radar would see deep into its own territory. a post—mortem into the death of the singer george michael has found that he died of heart disease and a fatty liver. the singer—songwriter, who sold tens of millions of records around the world, was found dead at his home in england on christmas day. and an incredible picture to share with you. this comes from australia where a sydney ferry worker captured the moment a giant wave hit his vessel as it battled through a storm. amateur photographer haig gilchrist posted the picture to instagram, and it's been a social media hit ever since. idid not i did not think it was real. back injanuary munira ahmed became the face of resistance to the trump administration. the image of her wearing a hijab made from the stars and stripes of the american flag was seen in marches across the us

and around the world. that's despite the picture being taken more than a decade ago. we've been speaking to munira about how it feels to be a global image of protest. to me, the picture represents empowerment. it represents inclusion, it represents america. the original photo was shot in 2007. the original photo was shot in 2007. the concept behind the original photo was to shoot a muslim woman wearing a hijab but instead of the fabric of a normal non—print fabric, the fabric was an american flag. to haveit the fabric was an american flag. to have it shot in the proximity of ground zero at a time when there was still a lot of questioning of the allegiance of muslim americans. as

someone who is american and as someone who is american and as someone who is a muslim, that concept seemed the most visually compelling image of a muslim woman. whether i choose to wear a hijab or not is not really relevant at that point. i feel a connection not is not really relevant at that point. ifeel a connection to not is not really relevant at that point. i feel a connection to that. the photographer contacted me, basically a month before the inauguration, early december and he said, so that famous photograph of hours, and artists contacted me to try and recreate it. i did not know how prominently it would become. i was down in dc and i went to a rally. every shade and every gender using this as their protest image. they could have used so many other protest images but they decided to use this all over the world. i liked that it use this all over the world. i liked thatitis use this all over the world. i liked that it is the protest image, but it

is not a partisan ideal. it isjust what this country represents. even ifi what this country represents. even if i did not know that that was me, i think if i did not know that that was me, ithinki if i did not know that that was me, i think i still would have felt proud of a muslim woman being depicted so positively, it is necessary for a lot of people to see. at that moment, i thought things might not be so bad after all! the expression itself, in the photo, you can see right there, you're not going to move me from here. i am you're not going to move me from here. iam not you're not going to move me from here. i am not going to be moved. munira ahmed speaking about becoming the image of protest. it is u nfortu nately the image of protest. it is unfortunately political, but it has become an issue of democrats versus republican. now remember the row about the size of the crowds attending president trump's inauguration ceremony? yesterday the national parks service, in response to a freedom of information request, released a series of photos taken

that day, as well as corresponding photos from president 0bama's inaugurations in 2009 and 2013. we can show you two of them on screen now. 0n the left is a photo from 2009 while on the right is one from january 2017. let me remind you of what donald trump said about these pictures a few weeks ago. we had a massive fields of people. packed. i get up this morning and i turn on one of the networks and they showed an empty field. i said, wait a the networks and they showed an empty field. isaid, waita minute, i made a speech, i looked out, the field looked like a million, 1,000,000 anda field looked like a million, 1,000,000 and a half people, they showed a field... he was not happy. in fairness, it was raining, showed a field... he was not happy. infairness, it was raining, it was a different day and he makes that point and when he is looking out, he

can probably only see crowds. the photographs come out after he made that statement. i think we just have to let those photographs speak for themselves. it is clear that the clouds —— crowds were bigger. that is it from us. we will be back tomorrow. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines. the government suffers its second defeat in a week in the house of lords over its plans to take britain out of the eu. peers want a bigger say for parliament on any final deal. the cia refuses to comment as the website wikileaks publishes what it claims is evidence the agency uses a wide range of computer hacking tools. money for new grammar schools in england is expected to be announced in tomorrow's budget. an update on the market numbers for you — here's how london's and frankfurt ended the day. and in the the united states this is how the dow and the nasdaq are getting on.

in america, the cia has refused to comment on the league of thousands of documents released by the wikileaks website. this is reportedly from the cyber intelligence operation. experts have begun examining the paper and they say their first impression is that they are genuine with the league of course a major embarrassment to the central intelligence agency. i have been speaking to an expert in military intelligence analysis research at the city university of london and i began by asking him whether he thought the documents we re whether he thought the documents were genuine. probably. they look very professional in the way that they have been developed and the titles of them would give me the impression that they were being developed by a secure agency. this

is from the cia centre for cyber intelligence. how on earth could it have been hacked, was it hacked?” doubt it. because the cia systems are probably some of the best protected in the world. if you think about the amount that has been leaked, all the software will be in files all over their own systems. so to be able to hack in and